Paolo Rambaldi, son of the founder of "Italy in miniature" killed by a tractor

Paolo Rambaldi, 73 years old, son of the founder of the Riviera theme park "Italy in miniature", was the victim of an agricultural accident in the countryside of Montefiore Conca, in the Rimini area. Rambaldi led the historic Viserba theme park for decades, together with his sisters, taking up the legacy of his father Ivo. Since 2020 he was also president of Rimini Rugby.

The accident in which he died occurred on land owned by the victim, near Via Gemmano, where olive harvesting operations were underway. According to an initial reconstruction, Rambaldi was following a tractor with a trailer on foot as it was climbing a slope when the agricultural vehicle suddenly moved backwards, overwhelming him and overturning. The rescuers could not do anything for him, Paolo Rambaldi was already dead; the driver of the tractor suffered minor injuries. The police are investigating the dynamics of the incident.

Deep condolences were expressed by the mayor of Rimini, Jamil Sadegholvaad. "I have many personal memories of Rambaldi. I struggle to line them up at this moment, when pain is confused with disbelief at the sudden loss. A good, smiling man, incredibly similar to his father Ivo, whose creativity he had also and above all inherited. Italia in Miniatura, intuition, success, an obligatory destination for millions of people in the aggressive and carefree years of Rimini's tourist boom. All based on hard, very hard work. And on an optimistic and ambitious declaration of intent: to enclose Italy and its best, its symbolic places in a single space".

In that attraction which for Sadegholvaad was "the cosmos at hand", since 1993 Paolo Rambaldi and his sisters have carried forward "the same pioneering vision of the founder". “To Paolo Rambaldi the heartfelt tribute and thanks of the city of Rimini, which embraces and embraces his entire family”, concludes the mayor. The date of the funeral has not yet been announced.